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The Memphis Cycle

The great  city of Memphis served  as the northern  capital of  Egypt for millennia.  The  earliest history  of the Pharaohs  began in Memphis.  The great  Pyramids  cluster  to  its  west.  Armies  marched  from  Memphis, navies  sailed  from  its port.  Even at the  very end  of its  history,  as a shadow of its  former glory, Egypt  could not be conquered until Memphis fell.  The  Nile  changed its  course, as  rivers will,  and the  grand old city disappeared into the marshes, its stones taken to be used in newer sites.

The  Memphis Cycle  presents the stories of the  people who became a part of  Memphis.   Kings, priests, princes, commoners move through these stories, and in following the tales you follow the city's history.  I am glad to see that great city emerging.  It has been a welcoming presence in my stories.
    

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The City of Refuge

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Mourningtide

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Pharaoh's Son

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​A Killing Among The Dead

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The Thirty Cubit Crocodile is my newest entry in The Memphis Cycle stories.  It is a shorter story, and the idea came about while I was doing some of research on Seti I's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. (There is a scene in Mourningtide where Seti, who has come to Deir el Medineh - the town of the royal tombmakers - incognito - after visiting his son's tomb.  He realized that he needed to take time away from his royal duties, time to cope with the needless death of his first son. 

He comes to Deir el Medineh the village of the royal tombmakers, and is hired as a guard.  While some people suspect his identity, he is taken in and welcomed as one with knowledge of warfare - important because the towm is being menaced by marauders from the east.  I was researching Seti's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.  One of the paintings depicts various constellations, among them a large crocodile.  I read later, in a bit of poetry, the notion that the Milky Way was sometimes thought to be light sparkling on the ripples in the celestrial river left by the passage of a great crocodile.  Whether this notion is correct cannot be proved, but the notion remains.

The Thirty Cubit Crocodle story arose from the Memphis Cycle, but in a somewhat sidewise manner.  While researching Seti I's tomb in the valley of the Kings, I was interested to see depictions of celestial characters, one of them a crocodile.  The Thirty Cubit Crocodile arose from that image and the Egptian notion (which I encountered in my readings)  of the Milky way being the sparkles in its wake.  This is a shorter story, and I am grateful to Kerry Trapnell, the photographer, for his permission to use one of his photos as the basis for my cover design.
 

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TIMELINE

I have had questions regarding the order of the books in this series.  I have set up this page to explain them:
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TIMELINE


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  • Welcome
  • My Writing
    • The Memphis Cycle >
      • Purchase Links
      • The Timeline
      • The City of Refuge
      • Mourningtide >
        • An Interview with King Seti, the main character of MOURNINGTIDE
      • A Killing Among the Dead
      • Kadesh Preview >
        • The Division of Amun
        • Brotherly Love (1)
        • The First Wave
        • Counterattack at Shabtuna Ford
    • The Safeguard >
      • After The Battle
      • At the Union Camp - Requesting a Safeguard
      • Lavinia at Home
      • The Safeguard Arrives
      • The Nightmare Comes
  • Speaking of writing...
    • scrivener stuff
    • bookcover
    • book covers & stock images
  • Purchase Links
  • News and Announcements